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Do you ever think? The voice, God forbid.

— Samuel Beckett The End (1946)

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I am such a good man, at bottom, such a good man, how is it that nobody ever noticed it?

Malone Dies (1951)

The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.

Murphy (1938)

Personally of course I regret everything.

Watt (1943)

There is a little of everything, apparently, in nature, and freaks are common.

Molloy (1951)

They never lynch children, babies, no matter what they do they are whitewashed in advance.

The Expelled (1946)

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Most intellectual people do not believe in God, but they fear him just the same.

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When the mind is not dissipated upon extraneous things, nor diffused over the world about us through the senses, it withdraws within itself, and of its own accord ascends to the contemplation of God.

Basil of Caesarea

Once you accept the existence of God — however you define him, however you explain your relationship to him — then you are caught forever with his presence in the center of all things.

Morris West The Clowns of God (1981)

God seeks comrades and claims love,
the Devil seeks slaves and claims obedience.

Rabindranath Tagore Fireflies (1928)

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